RODENTIA: CRICETIDAE 609 



Pedoinys ochrogaster minor (Merriam)f * 



1888. Arvicola austerus minor Merriam, Amer. Nat., vol. 22, p. 600, July 1888. 

 1900. Microtus minor V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 17, p. 75, June 6, 1900. 



1941. Pedomys minor Ellerman, The families and genera of living rodents, 

 vol. 2, p. 621, Mar. 21, 1941. 



1942. Microtus ochrogaster minor Bole and Moulthrop, Sci. Publ. Cleveland 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, No. 6, p. 160, Sept. 11, 1942. 



Type Locality. — Bottineau, at base of Turtle Mountains, Bottineau County, N. 

 Dak. Range. — Eastern North Dakota (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 49 

 (1926), p. 99, Jan. 8, 1927) and western and northern Minnesota (Swanson, 

 Minnesota Dept. Conserv. Techn. Bull. 2, p. 92, 1945) northward to Edmonton 

 in central Alberta, and Dundurn and Indian Head in Saskatchewan, Canada 

 (Bole and Moulthrop, loc. cit.) . 



Pedomys ochrogaster haydenii (Baird) f * 



1858. Arvicola (Pedomys) haydenii Baird, Mammals, in Rep. Expl. Surv. 



Railr. to Pacific, vol. 8, pt. 1 (Washington, 1857) , p. 543, July 14, 1858. 

 1907. Microtus ochrogaster haydeni Osgood, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 



20, p. 48, Apr. 18, 1907. 

 1941. Pedomys haydenii Ellerman, The families and genera of living rodents, 



vol. 2, p. 621, Mar. 21, 1941. 

 Type Locality. — Fort Pierre, Stanley County, S. Dak. Range. — Semiarid 

 plains region of North Dakota west of Missouri River (V. Bailey, North Amer. 

 Fauna No. 49 (1926), p. 98, Jan. 8, 1927), southeastern Montana (Bole and 

 Moulthrop, Sci. Publ. Cleveland Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, No. 6, p. 160, Sept. 11, 

 1942), Wyoming, Nebraska and northwestern Kansas (Hibbard, Trans. Kansas 

 Acad. Sci. vol. 47, p. 82, September 1944) ; westward to central Colorado 

 (Warren, The mammals of Colorado, . . ., p. 231, 1942). 



Pedomys ochrogaster taylori Hibbard and Rinker 



1943. Microtus ochrogaster taylori Hibbard and Rinker, Univ. Kansas Sci. 

 Bull., vol. 29, pt. 2, No. 4, p. 256, Oct. 15, 1943. 



Type Locality. — Bog area on the farm of H. H. Hildebrand, a mile and a half 

 north of Fowler, Meade County, Kan. Range. — Southwestern Kansas ; specimens 

 recorded from northern Oklahoma may represent this subspecies (see Blair, 

 Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 22, No. 1, p. 126, July 1939). 



Pedomys ludovicianus V. Bailey f * 



1900. Microtus ludovicianus V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 17, p. 74, 



June 6, 1900. 

 1941. Pedomys ludovicianus Ellerman, The families and genera of living 



rodents, vol. 2, p. 621, March 21, 1941. 

 Type Locality. — Iowa, Calcasieu Parish, La. Range. — Coast prairie of south- 

 western Louisiana; recorded also from Sour Lake, Tex. (V. Bailey, North 

 Amer. Fauna No. 25, p. 119, Oct. 24, 1905) . 



Genus PITYMYS " McMurtrie (pine-mice) 

 1831. Pitymys McMurtrie, The animal kingdom ... by the Baron Cuvier, 

 vol. 1, p. 434, footnote. (Type, Psammomys pinetorum Le Conte.) 



" Revised by V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 17, pp. 62-67, June 6, 1900. 



